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Blackhevadotcom is a random collection of things that I think about, come across, or wish to display to the general public. It’s sort of my own personal reflection tool allowing me to observer my growth and change as a human being. I am not the person that I was in 2001, 2002 or even 2003. Some of it is interesting, some of it is horribly written. All of it however is me. Or at least was.
This site is in constant flux. Representative of my state of mind. Man I sound like a flake. Anyways…
So I’ve had a few people ask me where I came up with the name. What does it mean? Well here you go…
An item neglected in the rush of the week’s news: it was revealed that Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who stormed the U.S. Capitol last summer, killing two police officers, did it because he feared being contaminated by “Black Heva,” a blight that he considered “the deadliest disease known to mankind.” Black Heva (which exists only in Weston’s mind) spreads by way of the rotting flesh of cannibals’ victims; Weston shot the policemen because they were cannibals preventing him from getting to the “ruby satellite,” a device that is the key to halting Heva-breeding cannibalism.
Evil on paper looks impressive (one of mankind’s most important words, invested with the dignity of mystery and theology). But evil in actuality, when it touches down on earth like a tornado for a moment–as it did in Weston’s visit to the Capitol, or last week in Littleton–may have a style so tacky, so moronic or so indelibly crazy that it gives off a radiant tabloid weirdness. This almost novelistic sheen of the loony makes the tragedies curiously hard to evaluate. The evil effect is evident–innocent blood everywhere; the cause, in the case of Littleton anyway, remains obscure. Evil is, after all, a mystery. The uniqueness of individual evils owes something to chaos theory. Perhaps we should not try to explain something like the shootings but should sit very still, and pray, and await the arrival of clarity.
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